As stated by the organisers of the EXPO 2015 focused on “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, this Universal Exhibition constitutes a “platform for the exchange of ideas and shared solutions on the theme of food, stimulating each Country’s creativity and promoting innovation for a sustainable future”.

Through this exercise we wish instead to collect into a reflexive debate the insights from citizens who usually are described and performed as just consumers – i.e. following a neo-liberal economic perspective focusing on citizen choices and behaviours as drivers of food markets. Therefore, the ultimate aim of this exercise is to explore other ways in which human agency can change what is now described as an urgent and complex human issue: feeding the planet with quality. In this way, we hope to further contribute to reach one of the objectives of Expo 2015, that is to “open up a dialogue between international players, and to exchange views on these major challenges which impact everyone”.

At the end of the FFT a report will be produced, such as a Charter of ideas, where suggestions, tips and scenarios emerged from participants around the theme of the food of the future and the future of food will be collected. Such scenarios may support policy makers and / or experts who deal with food strategy in optical local, national and / or International level.
The Paper produced can e. g. interact with the provisions in the Protocol of Milan, in order to update it, provide ideas and suggest possible lines of strategic direction. It can also interact with the Food Policy that Milano City is elaborating in these months as other cities in the world. In the final Workshop of October 24th a preview of such a Charter will be discussed.

The proposed activity takes stock of research and literature on Public Engagement debates about science and technology that are relevant for public policy; in particular this experience is designed according to what is designated as “experiential engagement”.

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